Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands ranks 222nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Cook Islands, Anguilla, and Åland Islands. Memorable people born in present day Solomon Islands include Frank Kabui, Danny Philip, and Derek Sikua. Memorable people who died in Solomon Islands include Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, and Akira Matsunaga. Solomon Islands has been the birth place of many politicians and the death place of many explorers and soccer players.

Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is a country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, to the northeast of Australia. It is directly adjacent to Papua New Guinea to the northwest, Australia to the southwest, New Caledonia and Vanuatu to the southeast, Fiji, Wallis and Futuna, and Tuvalu to the east, and Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia to the north. It has a total area of 28,896 square kilometres, and a population of 734,887 according to the official estimates for mid 2023. Its capital, Honiara, is located on the largest island, Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the wider area of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, but excludes the Santa Cruz Islands. Read more on Wikipedia